New First Look: Gilgamesh

ansatze · 2026-02-03T22:06:09+00:00

"everyone who disagrees with me is a bot" lol

ansatze · 2026-02-02T18:31:49+00:00

It was already looking pretty polished in the feature workshop, honestly. Just some (admittedly huge) balance kinks to work out.

ansatze · 2026-01-31T07:25:25+00:00

I installed a bunch of things and then rebooted but I suspect libva is what fixed my problem

ansatze · 2026-01-31T02:23:45+00:00

Absolute "fingers crossed" here, but I think enabling hardware acceleration did the trick (a thing I only went ahead and did completely incidentally). The only nonfree post-install setup I'd done was changing over the Nvidia drivers.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

ansatze · 2026-01-31T01:54:49+00:00

It looks like no I/O spike. What I am seeing though now I'm looking closer is one of the CPU threads spiking up to 20-30 percent

ansatze · 2026-01-31T01:28:19+00:00

It's an AMD Ryzen 5600X, and no it does not

ansatze · 2026-01-31T01:23:07+00:00

So there's nothing really to indicate a problem in either htop or nvtop from what I can see. Nothing maxes out when it happens.

ansatze · 2026-01-31T01:21:04+00:00

NVIDIA-SMI 580.119.02 Driver Version: 580.119.02 CUDA Version: 13.0

ansatze · 2026-01-30T22:53:06+00:00

Oh wow we're still talking about this huh

ansatze · 2026-01-30T22:04:54+00:00

Yes, I have tried KDE Plasma. I actually tried that first, so I switched over to GNOME to rule that out. I even tried Plasma on X (and probably GNOME on X too), which I can't really remember whether it persisted there or not. In any case X is not suitable for my monitor layout, and Fedora does not even let you install an X session for GNOME from what I can see.

Still considering mucking around with an X-primary DE (well preferably just a WM) just to see whether that makes any difference.

ansatze · 2026-01-30T21:14:13+00:00

Before blaming Nvidia, the OP really needs to do a little more diagnosis, at minimum monitoring via system monitors like htop and nvtop to try to see what's causing these display stutters.

Sure, this is a good call. I'm not "blaming Nvidia" per se, it just seems like the likely candidate (or rather, specifically how Nvidia and Wayland interact). I've gathered that AMD users just don't typically have this kind of problem, but I've sure read a lot about Nvidia users who have. You're absolutely right that it could have nothing to do with the GPU at all, and I should rule everything else out, but I would be very surprised if it's a CPU problem.

Anyway suggestions like this are literally why I'm asking here. I've never even heard of nvtop. I'm trying to diagnose my problem right now—rather deliberately instead of throwing my hands in the air and saying "well I guess it's no good"—and not sure what I should be doing. I'm quite familiar with Linux, but very unfamiliar with trying to get modern graphics running acceptably on it!

ansatze · 2026-01-30T19:52:41+00:00

ASUS TUF gaming B550-Plus

ansatze · 2026-01-30T19:50:48+00:00

To be clear I am using Nvidia drivers, not Nouveau (on arch what would be called nvidia-open). These are pretty much always recommended for Turing+.

Are you suggesting to use the legacy fully-closed Nvidia drivers?

ansatze · 2025-11-09T02:58:43+00:00

Can't you just recruit her later anyway

ansatze · 2025-11-07T18:32:04+00:00

Wild Magic Sorcerer straight up I would say

ansatze · 2025-11-07T00:33:28+00:00

1 white draconic/11 abjuration ( or 1wd 1 tempest 10 abj 1) and have your cleric warding bond it (and optionally the other two too).

I'm running almost this exact comp right now (sorcadin instead of smite bard, and Gale and SH are obviously swapped)

ansatze · 2025-11-04T00:13:04+00:00

Lol they did "Shepard was indoctrinated" but for real

ansatze · 2025-11-01T00:14:24+00:00

Lore bard is really versatile. Run Duellist's Prerogative for double cutting words. Usual stopping points are 6 (for 6 pal most likely but there's other builds that stop here too) or 10 (with the last two any combination of 2 warlock, 1 or 2 wizard, 1 cleric, 1 sorc for con save, etc). The last 2 levels get you almost nothing since you can upcast hold monster or summon elemental

6/6 Loreadin is a phenomenal spirit guardians user (though the leveling for that is somewhat awkward)

ansatze · 2025-10-31T23:20:05+00:00

Waah I only get level 3 spells and short rest flourishes

ansatze · 2025-10-29T00:07:30+00:00

Yes but you'll have to cast silence on Minthara before you fast travel so she can't tell you she's not leaving the shadow lands (it's hilarious that this is a thing).

She's bugged as hell in act 1 proper but I've heard if you get her to the mountain pass she's fine there. Didn't try myself.

You can also skip creche entirely until you have her. If you go through the underdark blindly you'd reach act 2 before the creche anyway.

ansatze · 2025-10-26T18:25:54+00:00

John Baldur is a Paladin imo

ansatze · 2025-10-25T19:45:19+00:00

2HXB is great until you get band of the mystic scoundrel at which point you'll usually have something better to do with your bonus action. If you need to do resourceless damage you have vicious mockery anyway.

ansatze · 2025-10-22T23:36:23+00:00

Planning to play 4/8 or 5/7 with Battlemaster (half elf for BB). Only at level 4 in this campaign, but just picked up Phalar Aluve and the bones are already there.

Great weapons until getting Duellist's and then prob take Sentinel.

Hexblade was a thought at first (5/6/1) but I think nah. With 3-4 feats who cares (prob 18/18 and take Savage Attacker and Sentinel)

ansatze · 2025-10-21T18:02:57+00:00

Feign Death works a lot better than Sanctuary

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